Federal legislation resulting in a post-World War II federal program of financial assistance for the construction and renovation of hospitals and other health care facilities. The intent was to increase the number of hospital beds in poor or underserved communities of the United States. The Hill-Burton Act also required that community hospitals receiving support under this program provide reasonable medical services to all people living in the hospital’s service area, regardless of their ability to pay. The Department of Health and Human Service (DHHS) issued regulations that established standards for uncompensated care and specified that the care provided to Medicare and Medicaid patients was not considered uncompensated care.